I got this in an e-mail and had to post it. Sadly, I am not as different as I though I was.

Just follow the instructions as quickly as possible. Do not go to the next calculation before you have finished the previous one. You do not need to write or remember the answers, just do it using your mind. You'll be surprised.

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3+56
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63+32
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I know! Calculations are hard work but it's nearly over...
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QUICK! THINK ABOUT A TOOL AND A COLOR!
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You have just thought about a red hammer, haven't you????
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If this is not the case, you are among 2% of people who have a "different" if not "abnormal" mind. 98% of the folks would answer a "red hammer" while doing this exercise. Scary, isn't it.

Ah ha! I thought of a yellow hammer. Whee, I'm special!

I thought about Green Screwdriver...

that's odd...

Black saw.

Not a surprise that I didn't come up with the usual answer for one of these things, I almost never do.

Back in a psych classes I took at university, I drove the prof nuts by never thinking/perceiving the way that "normal" people do. He claimed that I was the only student he had ever taught who had to be talked through how to see one of the optical illusions in the manner that "everyone" normally perceives it.

It was quite amusing actually, everyone else had trouble seeing it the way I did and had to be talked through how to do so. Meanwhile I had to be talked through how to see it the other way around. :lol:

Blue hammer.

Blue is my favorite color, so it's probably only logical that I chose it. And I also have an hatred for red.

Blue wrench...it's odd, no one has admitted to being one of the 98%

I did this one a couple months ago and was a red hammer.

I thought about green toy hammer. :D So, I'm not one of the mass!

Actually this was kinda stupid test...

I saw a blue hammer too... at least most people are getting the 'hammer' part

Red spanner!

Almost the same sound, I suppose.

didn't think of a colour or tool, case of substance abuse??????.

My first thought was a black calculator for obvious reasons... I thought they were referring to a tool in a figurative sense, not from a mechanical shop. Then I scrolled down and spoiled it before I could correct my answer. Oops.

A blue screwdriver

Green chainsaw... Methinks I'm pretty wack :\

I can't read so I just thought green

Red hammer. LEAVE MY BRAIN ALONE!

Blue Hammer!

Orange screwdriver, but I already knew I wasn't normal. :cool:

Red screwdriver...does that mean I'm 1/2 average?

Hmm, I'm one of three that has gotten the blue hammer in mind, but as Mesmero, my favourite color is blue...

A coincidence?... :hmm:

Green hammer...
Does this mean I'm partly normal?

Metal hammer with a red rubber grip.
Fits the category, but strangely disturbing... :p

Blue wrench...
But me be odd anywayz. :p

chalk up another blue hammer here.

Orange ratchet. I don't think I want to know. :roll:

Hmm, grey wrench.
I don't think that "test" is valid somehow ;)

Ended up with a red hammer, though I hardly believe this test, since most people seem to think of something else. Mayby it's the other way around? :p

Well, if you are looking for a group of people in the norm, chances are there are not any here. Most people who get the red hammer here get it from random chance.

Here at SP, we are all a little nuts in the toque.

Grey hammer.

Blue Screwdriver :confused:

Chev in blue! (well, he is a a bit of a tool ;) )

Yellow hammer. What´s with the hammers I wonder...
And as stated, it almost seem like the ones that get red hammer is the different people.
Or maybe this is just the wrong place to look for normal people :D

blue hammer here.

Blue screwdriver. Same as Lazy Bonzo. Hehe, mad.

orange screwdriver..we here at sp seem to make up alot of that 2% ; )

Blue hammer. hmmmm

Another Blue Hammer. Almost a Blue Handsaw but that came in too slow.

Red spanner :)

Chalk up yet another Blue Hammer.

Hmm - Perhaps we *are* the norm, it's all the others that are different?

Pink Chainsaw

My PC, it's the best tool that I own...

Man that has to be one of the lamest "quizes" I have even read...

well, a blue hammer here too. But I have a theory why there are so many blue hammers. Actually, most of them would have thought of a red hammer if it hadnt' been for the blueish purple background of SP, which influences the choice of color. For this test to be valid, it has to be in black letters on a white background IMHO. If the background would have had a saw, then most people probably would have thought about a saw.

Just my two eurocents :p

Black Hammer

Red hammer. According to this thread, it's coincidence though.

Black hammer.
But what does that prove?
Is half of me an independent individual, while the hammer-half is massproduced standard?
:hmm:

Ah, who cares.

My friend just got a red hammer, too!

Silver calculator. Not sure if that's good or bad...

mauve adze... I think I be slightly messed up in the brain case.

My brother said red hammer. Maybe our different results are because RPGers think differently from "normal" folk. Then again, it is probably just that the 98% figure is vastly overstated.

I've been hacking away on kilos of old wooden trash today, with a red hammer.

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I thought about Green Screwdriver...
How odd, so did I :)

green hammer

red hammer, arg, im so dissapointed...

Is there an explanation for this?

I did this test a year or two back as well. Then it had 3 parts, each very much the same as this one. I got 1 or 2 out of 3 the same way as the test assumed.

Now, when I read "tool and a colour" the only thought I had was a hammer and a carrot, then I moved on and read what it was supposed to be. So guess my colour would be orange. Close enough I suppose.

But I have a problem with my "different" thinking as well, truth be said. I'm very stupid in other things, while very insightful in others. And even generally my problem is that I focus on different things than others normally do when trying to learn something, listen to something or otherwise analyze a problem. I don't count this as an advantage. While the good thing about it is I feel unique and hopeful there's something great about me, the bad thing is that I just don't blend in. And I'm getting quite tired of soloing through this life of mine.

What?! Damn I couldn't think about a single tool... Well now I always knew I was special, I just didn't realize it was that bad! ;)

And as for the colors, I can uderstand why so many are getting blue. Just looka at the background ;)

Red hammer!

Well, no wonder if you think that I have an obsession with hammers and my favorite colour is red...

But, anyway, does this mean I'm normal? I don't think so... Like Foradasthar: "I'm very stupid in other things, while very insightful in others."

Odd, I had a green hammer.

But it is a hammer.

Weird.

Leave my red hammer alone! or my brain for that sake!

I think this test is made for danes, we always use hammers and red is our flag colour, so instinctively we think of those... Timepressure is the essense! Or Telepathy. or alien invasions... :mommy:

Red
Blue
Green

The most common and also the basic colours. I guess those making the test thought a hammer was a basic tool, but what we have seen here is everything from calculators to chainsaw. Roleplayers are so imaginative and inspiring! :thumb:

Still time seems important here, right? The more unusual answers you have, the better part of a split second you guys did spend on thinking out a tool and a colour? My guess is that those spending more than a half a second, found "alternative" answers to a hammer and even to the RGB colours; Most commonly the achromatic colours.

[ March 16, 2004, 11:52: Message edited by: Nobleman ]

Blue flashlight. :hmm:

Maybe that means I'm enlightened :cool: .

Red wrench, red wrench!! Yay, I'm special!! :hahaerr:
Red's my favourite colour...and the alliteration made it easier to say...meh (that's my explanation)

RGB colours Aha!, the TV is causing us to pick those colors! :jawdrop:
It's a conpiracy!. Can't figure out who's winning on this however... :hmm:

Well, this test only goes to show that most SP members are special. ;)

/laughing insanely, but provocatively, at the rest of the world!, as they stare jealously. :(
(It feels SO good to be me... :grin: )

That is freaky, i got red hammer, but I looked to my left (memory turn, right is "im making it up turn") and said "hammer, red!" then i scroll, and wow, surprise...

I'm going to take that to my high school and see what they do...

Silver clamp. Well, I need to repair a chair so I guess that's why.

Math = Evil

yellow shovel (?!)

Well, all geniuses are abnormal, aren't they? :p

I don't think it works.
I got yellow screwdriver.

Ho Hummmmm

Fergus, ya got yellow too?
It must be that smiling mood! :) ;) :) ;) :)

Blue Hammer! ITS A CONSPIRACY!

Blue wrench. So there. :)

green hammer here

I have to admit this is a fantastic test! The narrow spectrum of answers just tell us how much the average person deal with tools and colours.

Even more curious is that none has actually successfully managed to seperate the tool from the colour. They ask for a tool and a colour, but everyone so far seems to have thought of a coloured tool.

My first thought was a Black Machete.

Well no-one can say it's not original :hahaerr:
What can I say, I do collect knives after all, and that *is* a really big version of a knife...
Betcha a shrink would love to getta hold of this result. :rolleyes: :lol: :p

Red Spanner lol

Yeah I'm in the 2% :)

So thats why people look at me funny ...

This test is idiotic...blue spanner, bah!

I don't think i understood it cos I got an iron cloured wrench :confused:

:yot: you guys all belong in padded rooms, you know that, right?

There was a similar test where you had to think of the first vegetable that popped in your head.

My friend got courgettes, absolute crackup.

98% of people get carrot.

A dark blue monkey-wrench
I just saw it, I had to draw it for my friends then look it up in a dutch-english dictionary before I could write my response
VERY disturbing

hmmm. maybe this test only works with north americans? and in the UK the expected answer would be "red spanner"? (we north americans like to put wrenches, not spanners, in the works...)

Uhhh, is a sword a tool??? :mommy: I thought of a blue sword. That's too much rolepaying and reading for me I guesses. At least I'm not normal, and since most of you aren't normal, and my answer isn't normal to you, what does that make me???? :hmmm:

i thought of a blue hammer and yeh i dont think that test is very good, a lot of people are not thinking of a red hammer, or they are just cheating by scrolling down and not answering the sums